What's the difference between demagogic and demagogue?

Demagogic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Demagogical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We’re going to have our country back, and protect our second amendment.” After each demagogic slogan, the crowd screamed its approval, waving placards that called themselves the “silent majority for Trump”.
  • (2) He admired the demagogic black separatist Louis Farrakhan for his insistence that blacks and whites could never live together, and the dictatorships of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and Ayatollah Khomeini for their hatred of Jews.
  • (3) So the student question must be addressed on its own merits, not thrown into a demagogic hotpot marked "immigration" (aka "bloody foreigners").
  • (4) Fidel called President Obama's conference remarks ' deceitful, demagogic and ambiguous ,'" a cable said.
  • (5) The Ocean Hill-Brownsville affair had a lasting and damaging effect on the politics of the city, since in the past Jews and African Americans had formed a powerful liberal bloc; now many Jews drifted to the "neo-conservative" right, while many black New Yorkers were alienated from mainstream politics and driven to back more or less demagogic black politicians.
  • (6) The HDP and other Erdogan opponents contend that the current political climate has been stoked by the demagogic Turkish president, who, stung by the election setback in June , is eager to put the pro-Kurdish party back in its corner.
  • (7) Instead of being an expansive, outward-looking, globalist power, the United States has definitively turned inward, shutting its borders to Mexicans, Muslims and any number of other perceived enemies of Trump’s demagogic imagination.
  • (8) Liberals will describe this as a failure of consensus politics that has been driven by the lowest suspicion and prejudice available in American society, manipulated by big business, pandered to by lax or demagogic media companies, such as Fox News, and ridden by ambitious politicians who promise a fantasy land that they cannot deliver.
  • (9) In these backlash countries, LGBTI people are increasingly demonised by politicians to win popular support In these backlash countries, LGBTI people are increasingly demonised and scapegoated by demagogic politicians and fundamentalist clerics as a cheap way to win popular support.
  • (10) As to the demagogic meddling of the mayor of London – who thinks it would have been "wholly commonsensical" to arrest Mitchell – it's if nothing else a useful reminder that Boris Johnson is never knowingly outshitted.
  • (11) Instead of Roosevelt, the supposed lackey of Jewish finance, Johnson and a friend, Alan Blackburn, fixed on Huey P Long, and then, when that odious Lousiana governor was assassinated, a demagogic priest from Michigan, Father Coughlin, as allies.
  • (12) Conspiratorial, at times smacking of racism when he spoke of droves of Arab citizens of Israel being bussed to polling stations, and playing on the notion of the right as the victim of an alliance of the left and unnamed foreign powers, it was an appeal both demagogic and pitched to be alarmist.
  • (13) Proactively, it seeks to meet the crisis on every level on which it manifests itself by changing strategies, winning over popular layers with "demagogic promises", and pre-empting and isolating opponents.
  • (14) Talking about ‘defending Europe’ is not just demagogic, it’s unworthy.” The activist movement’s leaders, who call themselves ‘Identitarians’ , are in Catania awaiting the arrival of C-Star, which left Djibouti earlier this month.
  • (15) Demagogic in style and undemocratic in nature, there is no percolation of political ideas from the membership to the leadership.
  • (16) In true demagogic fashion, Trump bypassed the head and spoke directly to the gut, to the biles and bubbling acids of raw emotion.
  • (17) "It is a perfectly demagogic tactic … No one is taken in.
  • (18) German’s doughty finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, has warned of the scourge of “demagogic populism”, while the EU’s economic affairs commissioner, Pierre Moscovici, suggested Europe’s voters might be poised “to destroy it”.
  • (19) On Monday Seracini described the petition as sour grapes, an attempt "by the excluded to block extraordinary research", adding: "This demagogic attack risks Italy being derided around the world."
  • (20) Avoiding demagogic confrontation will be a priority for Berlin, the provider of the bulk of Greece’s €240bn bailout.

Demagogue


Definition:

  • (n.) A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He lost no time climbing on the back of the clown car of the demagogue who, with ghoulishly oedipal glee, he calls “Daddy”.
  • (2) Just one problem: she was singing the praises of Donald Trump, that peerless narcissist, deceiver, dodgy deal maker and demagogue.
  • (3) Privacy advocates contend Comey is demagoguing the issue.
  • (4) Why Livingstone is not recognised as one of the most unprincipled demagogues in Britain after this performance – why, indeed, Labour has not expelled him – is one of the wonders of the age.
  • (5) Critics describe him as an authoritarian populist and dangerous demagogue.
  • (6) Admittedly, these moments, when the left – broadly defined – stir the passions as effectively as any demagogue of the right are rare.
  • (7) If white Americans need black villains to feel superior in their decline as 2015 closes – and as the leading demagogue Republican candidate for president can confirm, they do – then innocent victims like Tamir will continue to be killed, and those who do so will be rewarded with acquittal, fame or even promotion .
  • (8) O’Rourke warned that perhaps Trump was not the real threat, but that his candidacy seemed to spark “an impulse to like a demagogue.” Carr agreed Trump could be “the harbinger of something to come.
  • (9) He also wrote A Face in the Crowd (1957), about a rising demagogue.
  • (10) I am the last person on Earth [Clinton] wants to run against.” But the bully, showman, party crasher and demagogue – as Time’s cover put it – is also the last person many Republicans want to see at the top of the ticket, though arch conservative Cruz comes close.
  • (11) The Financial Times Deutschland last week published an article on its front page headlined " Resist the demagogue ".
  • (12) The Saudi strategy to derail the nuclear agreement and perpetuate – and even exacerbate – tension in the region has three components: pressuring the West; promoting regional instability through waging war in Yemen and sponsoring extremism; and directly provoking Iran .” Zarif added: “Let us not forget that the perpetrators of many acts of terror … as well as nearly all members of extremist groups like Al-Qaeda and the Nusra Front, have been either Saudi nationals or brainwashed by petrodollar-financed demagogues who have promoted anti-Islamic messages of hatred and sectarianism for decades.” Other Arab countries followed their Sunni ally in cutting or reducing diplomatic ties with predominantly Shia Iran.
  • (13) Abandoning the vast single market across the Channel doesn’t just mean reducing Britain to the status of lapdog to the woman-groping Muslim-bashing demagogue across the Atlantic.
  • (14) Tsipras is criticised as a populist, even a demagogue.
  • (15) They feign outrage that a demagogue spewing vile ... is somehow winning in a party that has spent years telling immigrants they’re not welcome in America,” said Reid.
  • (16) In the US, the racist demagogue Donald Trump blames the Brussels atrocity on Europe’s immigration policy, while his fellow Republican candidate Ted Cruz demands special patrols for Muslim communities to stop them being “radicalised” – a policy guaranteed to do the opposite.
  • (17) Distorting realities, ignoring nuances and hijacking people’s fears: that’s the recipe for a demagogue who lives not on his own wits but others’ miseries.
  • (18) Now they have won and what Kipling said of the demagogues of his age applies to Michael Gove, Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage.
  • (19) Beyond the violent and potentially violent lie fractured and isolated ghettos, where large numbers are prey to religious demagogues.
  • (20) I'm not a demagogue or an actor; the French expect something else from me, they want results," he said.

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